5 March 2026
H.I.T.s - Bad men (and women)
This will be the last H.I.T.s report until I have recovered from my upcoming oral surgery (next Wednesday). I will be scheduling a ‘Cycling Along’ post each Thursday to provide a commenting space until I get back in the saddle. I encourage you to collect news links during the week to share in the comments. Thank you for your patience!
Woman shot by off-duty officer sues police chief, town
In the tiny Virginia town of Kenbridge, south of Richmond, Heather Burrow—who was once a police officer there—had a child with another officer, Charles A. Stokes (age 44). But apparently the relationship was “tumultuous,” and on the afternoon of Sunday, February 8, Burrow called Police Chief Christopher Wallace from her car, parked outside Stokes’ home, to complain that she was afraid to pick up her daughter, who is about a year old.
According to a lawsuit filed last week by Burrow, rather than providing her with protection, Chief Wallace called Stokes. Stokes, allegedly “furious that she had involved others,” came out to her car and shot her ten times. He then fled to North Carolina (without the child, fortunately), where he abandoned the car he was driving and stole another. He was also careful to use a burner phone to contact his family on Sunday evening. Although he reportedly rejected their urgings to turn himself in, by Monday evening, he had returned to Kenbridge, where he was taken into custody.
Burrow called 911 from her car, expressing the belief that she was “bleeding out.” But she managed to drive to the fire station, and from there was taken to the hospital. Her family notes that she is “still recovering” and says that she “will forever have a bullet in her shoulder that surgeons cannot remove.”
The lawsuit asks for $144 million, alleging “five counts of gross negligence.” The suit also requests that the case be tried in Richmond instead of Lunenburg County, on the basis that “finding a jury without a personal or emotional connection would not be possible” locally.
MSM can’t find motive in Austin bar shooting
Just before 2 a.m. on Sunday, Ndiaga Diagne (age 53)—who had circled the block several times in his SUV—“put his flashers on, rolled down his window and began using a pistol” to shoot at people in front of Buford’s Backyard Beer Garden, located on Sixth Street in downtown Austin, Texas. After crossing the intersection of Sixth and West, he turned right onto the next street, Wood, where he parked his car and exited his vehicle. Now armed with a rifle, he began walking back up the street toward Buford’s, firing indiscriminately at people.
Fortunately, Austin Police arrived in less than a minute. They returned fired and killed Diagne. Underneath his sweatshirt—which read “Property of Allah”—it was discovered that he was wearing a shirt with a design based on the flag of the Islamic Republic of Iran. A Quran and “multiple weapons” were found in his car, and in his apartment, “an Iranian flag and pictures of Iranian leaders.”
Diagne appears to have come to the U.S. from his native Senegal in 2000 on a B-2 tourist visa (which only allows entrance for six months and disallows employment). He seems to have settled in New York City, and—despite being arrested in 2001 for “illegal vending”—he managed to get a green card in 2006 by marrying a U.S. citizen. They divorced in 2008. He married again in 2012; he would later claim, during divorce proceedings, that he had married “to help his then-wife become a U.S. citizen.” But it was he who managed to become a naturalized citizen in 2013, despite three (sealed) arrests between 2008 and 2016. He was sued in NYC for striking a pedestrian in 2016.
In 2017, he moved to Pflugerville, Texas with his wife and children, where he purchased the weapons used in the attack. But by 2022, his wife divorced him, citing “cruel treatment”—an assessment with which the judge agreed, ordering that his visits with his children be supervised. Also in 2022, he had another car accident, for which he was charged with a misdemeanor (his only known arrest in Texas). He may have married again shortly after the divorce, although I can find no confirmed information about that wife; he may be separated from her, since potentially related people appear to live at his home in Pflugerville, while he was living in an apartment in Del Valle.
According to the New York Post, sources in both New York and Texas knew him to be an “emotionally disturbed person.” CBS News also reports that law enforcement in Austin described him as having “prior mental health episodes,” although authorities have also said he was not “on our radar.” Based on posts from an X account he seems to have started in October 2024, however, he appears to have been coherent but hateful—attacking women, Trump, Christians, Israel, Jews, and declaring “THE ISLAMIC REVOLUTION IS ETERNAL AND HERE TO STAY UNTIL THE END OF TIME. You Zionist and islamophobes can be angry all you want but you can’t do a damn thing about it, no matter what.”
Three people have died so far as a result of the attack: 21-year-old Saditha Shan (age 21) and Ryder Harrington (age 19), who were killed at the scene, and Jorge Pederson (age 30), who was critically injured and taken off life support on Monday. Of the 13 other people injured, two remain in critical condition.
Also caught my eye…
Another trans encounter with the Border Patrol in NH
Blu Zeke Daly (age 26) of Manchester, New Hampshire—formerly known as Cullen Zeke Daly—is recovering from a gunshot wound under guard at a hospital after fleeing a Border Patrol traffic stop in Stewartstown late on the evening of February 21, then firing at the pursuing Border Patrol agent after discovering that the border crossing was closed for the night. It is not clear what led to the traffic stop, but Daly—who legally changed his name in 2024—fled when asked if he used any other names. Fortunately, the Border Patrol agent was uninjured, but Daly is being charged with attempted murder and assaulting a federal officer. It is unknown at this point whether he has any connection to the Zizian cult, which is linked to the murder of a Border Patrol officer last year.
Protests planned before Iran attack announced
At 2:34 a.m. (ET) on Saturday, the Marxist group ANSWER Coalition—one of many funded by Shanghai-based millionaire Neville Roy Singham—announced, “EMERGENCY NATIONWIDE DAY OF ACTION TODAY, SAT. FEB 28 — STOP THE WAR WITH IRAN!” However, it wasn’t until 2:44 a.m. that Pres. Trump officially announced the combat operation. Things that make you go hmmmmm…
Cold case linked to Alabama inmate
Robert Scott Froberg (age 61) has been in prison since 1989 for an armed robbery in Montgomery, Alabama. But in April 1996, he escaped from a prison work detail. By August, he was back in prison in Alabama, but while he was on the lam, it now appears that he kidnapped and murdered 7-year-old Morgan Violi of Bowling Green, Kentucky. DNA has now linked Froberg to the crime, and last week he admitted to investigators that he was responsible for her death.
IL woman concealed neighbor’s death for over a year
Gena English-Wheat (age 59) of Springfield, Illinois had been acting as a caretaker for an elderly neighbor, Lillie Prindle, for “several years” when (English-Wheat now says) she found the old woman dead in her chair in August 2024. Rather than reporting the death, English-Wheat covered the body with blankets and proceeded to use Prindle’s debit card, withdrawing $2,000 to $3,000 each month, as well as arranging electronic payment for utilities and lawn care to maintain the illusion that Prindle was still alive.
The badly decomposed body was discovered in November 2025, after police were requested to do a welfare check. English-Wheat, who has previous convictions for theft, was arrested last week and charged (so far) with concealment of a death.
Follow-ups:
Father of school shooter convicted of murder
The father of a boy who killed two students and two teachers at a Georgia high school in September 2024 has been found guilty of 27 charges, including second-degree murder. Colin Gray (age 55) had given his son, Colt (now age 16), an AR-15-style rifle the previous Christmas, despite knowing that the boy admired school shooters and that there had been multiple past investigations into his behavior. When testifying in his own defense, Colin Gray insisted that his son was “a good kid, you know?” and denied that “anybody would see that type of evil” ahead of time.
Although other parents of mass shooters have been found culpable to some extent in recent years, this is the first time one has been convicted of murder. Colt Gray—who has been charged as an adult—has yet to be tried.
Judge revokes expulsion of Columbia students
Justice Gerald Lebovits of the New York State Supreme Court has ruled that Columbia University students who were disciplined for their participation in the occupation of Hamilton Hall during pro-Hamas protests in 2024 cannot be punished on the basis of arrest records that have been sealed. Apparently New York has a ‘Clean Slate’ law that automatically seals arrest records if a case results in acquittal or dismissal (or after three years, in the case of misdemeanor conviction), and the Manhattan D.A.—predictably—dismissed the charges against the students.
Stowaway stows away again
Back in November 2024, Svetlana Dali (age 57)—a Russian national with permanent U.S. residency—managed to sneak on board a NYC-to-Paris flight. Evidently she had tried the same thing, unsuccessfully, at a Connecticut airport two days before, and is suspected of having stowed away on a flight to Miami earlier that year. She also cut off an ankle monitor and attempted to cross over into Canada after being released on bond. Her reasoning? She needed treatment because the U.S. military had poisoned her.
Despite still being on supervised release after being found guilty in May 2025 (the judge wanted her to get help for her mental illness), Dali managed to sneak onto a Newark-to-Milan flight last week. She is currently in Italian custody.
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"Judge revokes expulsion of Columbia students"
As I so often post as a response to things like this: Nothing will happen, and no one will pay a price. No one EVER does!
Remember this when Don Lemon serves no time.
I think the “news” was on at the airport when I saw the comment about “not knowing” what motivated the Austin shooter. I think I may have actually laughed out loud.
Nothing surprising in any of these stories, which is a shame. Stupid going to stupid.